[EASY DIY] How To Build Your Own Jo Staff (Version 2.0) | Michelle C. Smith 

I was JUST binge watching your videos and wondering “should I try this?” And then saw this upload… I think it’s a sign!

A quick way to find the center of your staff, rest your staff on 1 finger of each hand, and slowly bring them together. The staff will automatically balance itself till your fingers are touching then just mark the spot between your two fingers.

I feel you're probably one of the greatest lightsaber stunt individuals I've ever seen in my life ever. I used to do a few tricks you know spin it stuff like that but unfortunately my life changed when I was hit at 125 mph back on December 31st 2019 where I became permanently disabled so my lightsaber spinning days are kind of over. I had both my legs broken both my kneecaps, cracked my collarbone, broke my nose, shattered my left arm completely got a concussion I die twice in the operating table and was in a coma for a week What's even worse than that was from 2012 to 2018 my entire family passed away my mom had a stroke on Christmas 2012 and died January 27th 2013 so my mom got me in a Star wars and when I watch your videos I am just blown away by what you can do with these items I mean I know you've been doing it for over 30 years and it shows but you are probably the greatest lightsaber stunt woman stunt person I have ever seen in my life you make anybody from the Star wars films look like an amateur I don't know why you're not in the Star wars movies maybe you are I don't know but you should be in the ones from Disney because you would knock it out of the park without a question I mean you basically are a special effect I mean what you can do with these things is just it's almost unearthly so I just wanted to share my opinion of this and my thoughts and thank you for uploading the videos you truly are an amazing person and somebody that I look up to when it comes to this because you're just that you're you're just like a special effect you're that good you're just I can watch you all day long and never get bored and you seem like one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. Like you would look at me and see all my scars and all my problems I would never make fun of me like a lot of people do cuz a lot of people make fun of me and it really upsets me a lot.

11:55 The aluminium tape lengthwise... cut a strip the length you want, place it on a table sticky side up, roll your staff over it, job done! 😊

Yay, great video, Michelle! It is probably THE most asked question and even other Badass Family members started answering them for you. 🤣

Nice to see a fellow Montrealer build staffs and sticks! Nice video! Thanks.

A tip for taping lengthwise: instead of starting up and working down, go from one side of the tape to the other. Line your tape up long way and press it around the staff. Much easier to get it smooth that way as it wraps around in go. You can also do longer lengths of tape and get quicker coverage.

LOVE the kitties !!

that's dope, I usually go to home depot and can get dowels for 4 bucks lol just the wood pole but this is nice. cute cats! love your videos as you're my favorite to learn from!

I literally just built mine today because if your videos I’m super excited to start practicing.

Michelle, thanks for all of the great content. I would love to see even more Kali/Jar'Kai/Niman/Form 6 tutorials. It's one of my favorite as you can block and attack at the same time. I know there are many actual kali combat channels but for lightsabers you have to have a bit of flair and no one makes this look as good and elegant as you do. (insert James Bond song "Nobody does it better") A few things I have picked up and may be useful to others. This one takes more time and requires some tools. The reason for doing one washer, one layer of tape is part to make them very secure and part to not have the metal rattle at the end. I've found that if I need more weight the way I do this I only need one washer per end, but if you need two, one to two tiny drops of super glue between the washers will tightly bond them together for eternity. Kids, don't use super glue with out parental supervision, you will glue your fingers together. That may be great for swimming but it's bad for spinning. Then I find the center of the end of my staff, google finding the center of a tootsie pop.. I mean circle. Drill (or have your parent or guarding drill) a pilot hole. If you do not make a pilot hole the staff WILL split. Put a few drops of wood glue in the pilot hole. Put 2-3 drops of superglue on the end of the staff, place the washer on the end and use a screw to attach them. Before you tighten the screw all the way you can add a drop of superglue and this will hold things together so tight the hulk wont be taking it apart. Then tape it up as usual. I have never seen a washer go flying with just the tape method, but as you drop the staff that tape can wear and if you don't pay attention and re-tape it is possible. This method stops that and the pilot hole and wood glue prevent splitting. If you prefer a more typical bo staff (thicker, usually about 1.25in/3cm) and do not want to use any tape, skip the wooden dowels at your big-box hardware store. Instead head to the isle with the shower curtain rods. Many of them have nicer rods that are higher quality and already finished with a stain and or lacquer and they right around that diameter. Something I want to try. In the 90's you use to be able to buy a yo-yo that would light up without any batteries. It used a centripetal force powered led of some sort. If I can find some of those I want to try to incorporate them into a staff.

This was fantastic. I appreciate how simple and inexpensive this is. Can’t wait for my next trip to the hardware store. Thank you so much!

Thanks for another amazing video. Made my 1st staff after watching your original video on this and recently thought bout making a 2nd one so thanks for this. Stay safe and keep these coming they have helped me so much through the lockdown periods.

Love your videos. My kids wanted to learn too so we all made staffs from your previous video!

Ive been soooo waiting for this video. Thank you

Been watching your tutorials on FB and said lets learn this. I larp and cosplay and learning this would be amazing.

This is gonna save me so much money. Thanks!

This video is George and Aussie approved! 🐾🐾🐾🐾💕💕💕

That green and black cat painting is awesome. I want it

Thank you so much I have a fire staff that I have practiced with for years this is awesome can’t wait to create some new staffs

Thanks Michelle, I'm now going to buy the materials and make my own badass bo staff. Beats using my broom handle. New Star wars movies coming up, surely you should cast for them, you're soooo good.

Incredibly badass!

Lol I love the bloopers at the end 😂💕 you’re personality is awesome!

This is awesome! Would like to learn something new. Looks like a lot of fun!

Just joined your email list and received a link to this video. I bought my dowel rod, added rubber ends and used black electrical tape in the center third. I'm excited to start your lessons

I really Love❤ you Michelle C Smith💕

Great video, appreciate the tutorial ✌💗

Master Smith you are great

Michelle, Thank you for the Staph tutorial. I was going to ask about sanding it. Personally I would use a torch and burn rings around it every twelves inches on a 4 foot staph. My Nephew has Escrima Sticks done like that and they look cool.

I definitely want to try this!

Thanks for this video & the first building one. I've watched several of your tutorials & was looking for a new theaterical fighting style to learn. Going to HD to make a staff then off to your beginning videos! :-)

I ❤️ you! Awesome video!

Wow and yay!

Thanks for idea of making the staff.i planning to make one.

Im gonna build myself one. Thx 4 the diy video. Peace.

You added another passion to me, I love starwars and im building my own saber

this is the second video I've seen here.. but I love you already! inspired to learn some stuff from you))

thanks!

Lol love the cat cam! 😂 Thanks for the vid! 😀

great! thanks for the idea!!! that's super cool :).

I have 40 + multiple versions of my staff - thank you for your excellent guidance. ;^)

Thank youu so much 💖🙏

very cool!

Great video Michelle! Badass Family 4ever! XOXO

Nice pre..cool!

A helpful tip someone gave me for taping with non-stretchy tape, make sure the width of the tape is not bigger that the diameter of the tube

Michelle is so beautiful🤗😻 George is so...George😸💖 and yes!!! Most asked question🙌 in one video👏👍🙌thats great! #BAF💖

MUST sand the staff to take out some of the rough areas. SO much better on your hands. 😎👍

Sehr guter Beitrag, danke.

Arts and crafts with Michelle! Loved this video, I remember finding the old one so helpful when I was beginning so lovely to have an updated one, also love the cat cam breaks :)

very thanks a good lesson¡¡¡

Love your tik toks. Didn't know you had this channel. Anyway I liked ,subscribed, and now commenting.

LOVE that thumbnail!

Fabulous

Awesome video. Nice to see You

I m glad that they making lightsabers into staff its cool thanks for sharing your video with us happy Friday

This is great! My first time watching your videos I really thought the silver tape was metal. It seems cheap too. Great idea! (if it is your idea that is)

You are perfec ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Aloha thank you watching from Hawaii

I wanna try :)

Badass you got my respect and my sub keep kicking ass

thank you, you are so cool :)

LOVE all your videos! Thank you for sharing your magical skills. do you have any recommendations for a neo pixel staff lightsaber for spinning?

This is totally gonna justify the massive roll of burgundy duct tape I bought ages ago. Nice to finally give that purchase a reason to have happened, lol. The hockey tape is good stuff. Except I started with white and that starts looking unpleasant quick, but great otherwise. Gonna end up with a bunch of rolls of this stuff, I flippin' know it. Tried that self-bonding silicone tape, too. Not so long lasting, but it's very grippy. Might fare better on a staff where it tends that the center part doesn't take hits as they did on sabers as I used them. And finishing the ends with a different tape cause there's no proper adhesive otherwise. Would have gotten more out of it if I had done that. But I felt it gave a bit more confidence at the time I tried it because the added grip was tremendous. However, while grip fades on that, it increases with the hockey tape over time. Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it. But I need to start looking into this cause things I want to start practicing I'd just rather not put that abuse into my sabers. Someone had also just recently suggested putting those stoppers on sabers, too, which is an idea. Probably still drop that a bunch in taking the skill over to that. Hopefully not, but.. Definitely gotta get out later and try my luck on some straight wood at Home Depot. 👍

I just went to the garden section in my local dollar store and bought a couple of 6' bamboo poles, then trimmed one to 4' feet for practice... 6' one wouldn't go so well in my tiny apartment. However, I hadn't thought to put tape on them for that nice aesthetic touch... so I guess I'm going back to the dollar store tomorrow! lol

The one!

And it will still be your most asked question going forwards. I still want a RIP ceiling shirt :) #BAF

I got retan in the basement I think I can cut down to use. This reminds me so much of doing color guard routines. I’ve been looking for something similar to get back into.

There are Silicon Rubber Washer it can be used instead the metal ones, for no extra weight, or if you don't like the rubber stoppers at the end of your staff.

Dificil encontrar equipamento, achei a ideia de montar seu proprio equipamento genial, amando treinar! queria mais legendas em português

Hi, Michelle. Just found your channel; instant subscription ;-) I am wondering about the length; as pretty much all dowels I found in hardware stores here are pre-cut only to 1m (3,28 ft) and all stores I phoned up don't offer any longer than that. What length would you recommend for staff and 1H saber, respectively? Is there even a minimum? I really appreciate your input. Thanks, and keep up the badassery!

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You can use copper straifgbfits to go on brfore the runber stoppers and ubcan also balance it with them. Great video xx

You can get a nice Staff at homedepot ,look for a replace handle for industrial push brooms ,They are not unbreakable but the are Hickory, I think

We followed this vid two years ago when you first debuted it! Great economical option! Thanks 🙏 * really like the "lizard skin" grip tape!

Could you use Paracord for the centre of the staff? Is the tape to help grip or just to look fancy?

Love your "Jackie Chan" outakes...

This might seem ridiculous, but I when I was just starting out a while ago I happened to find that badminton rackets are actually quite good substitutes for staffs (I'm a pretty regular badminton player and one day I was just twirling one around my fingers out of boredom when I realised). A regulation racket is about the length of a collie stick, it's very light and balanced in the middle, the central part of it is very thin, and it's very durable (drop-proof). Additionally, the actual racket face part of it really doesn't get in the way and it makes it really easy to see which way around the staff is. And they're quite cheap. I actually managed to apply almost every basic skill across to one, and it definitely has made badminton matches far more interesting. Just a quick, random tip!

Do you have a video on spinning your body in circles with a staff maybe 3 times? I have a performance to learn and train for and am trying to figure out the best handling or spinning of the staff as I spin the body. Thanks 😊

Michelle I want to learn wrist-elbow to arm roll, please give us this tutorial! 💗

CAT CAM my day has been made

Do you have a suggestion for dowel length based on a persons height? I know it is preference but for someone starting out, is it better to go shorter or longer?

Yay, for cats, and Canada, eh! Bonus points for the "Oh, fuck!"

I also added pipe insulation around the last foot of each end, in case I hit a bookshelf, light, or myself. Same pipe insulation on my lightsaber.

Ahhh! If I'd noticed George & Aussie were cameos I'd have watched this video earlier. Cheap DIY staves can be good for practicing cool moves - but with some prep and management, they can also be handy, innocuous, street legal improvised personal defence tools.

Hey Michelle! Is there a way to prevent your hands from blistering? I got a big one between my thumb and forefinger.

Great, diy staff. Wouldn’t be better to screw on the wat Hera on the end with a screw? Easier to Chang weights?

I made my own hanbo (90 centimeter staff) out of a leftover piece of clear acrylic rod. Maybe not the most traditional material, but it still looks really cool. I prefer the length of the hanbo, because it can perfectly double as a walking stick. Last week i made myself a 20 milimeter wide steel tip from an old desktop screw in which i engraved my initials and screwed (and glued) it onto one end of my white oak jo staff for extra impact. I love working on my Katori Shinto Ryu training gear and my workplace has all kinds of machinery to help me with that.

Great video but what was the shiny tape you used?❤

what length the staff should be compared to yourself?

Can I use a pvc pipe with rubber ends? Do I need to make the ends weighted?

I used the same method but id recommend electrical tape its easy to grip and is still gripable when wet!!! 🤓👍🏻

Thank you for the video. I'm going to try and make a staff with the silver tape today. Been using broom and shovel handles forever. Do you ever spin fire? Or know how to make a fire/sparkle staff?

I nice videos

Can you do one for a staff for combat .On how do we use it for that

My staff is 32" long PPR PIPE, 3/4" diameter and 5mm thick, Taped 8" from both ends towards the center, tape wind at 5" from end 5 times each in order to have a weight distribution on both ends of the staff.

how tall should be the stick to be good? there is a kind of measurement?

Would it be possible to do one of these, but weighted as a saber rather than a staff? I would love that. Take good care. You're fantastic!

What's the difference between this style of staff and a dragon staff? Would I be able to use the same techniques? I'm trying to decide between the seemingly longer dragon staff and the kind you have here. Or is the only difference the fire?

I’m a lacrosse player , would it be okay to practice and learn with my lacrosse shafts or do you need a perfectly round staff ?